OT DAY 432 - God Is Your Real King (Please click here for English podcast)

Silence

1.   Put on your “brakes” and stop for a moment of silence

2.   Wait for God. Breathe deep for God's peace and feel His presence. Exhale your worries.

Praise and Thanksgiving

1.   Think through your day, all the times that made you smile

2.   Thank God for all those moments, and for all those people

3.   Open your heart to praise the Lord

         Praise him, sun and moon,
             praise him, all you shining stars!

           Praise him, you highest heavens,

              and you waters above the heavens!

           

                    Psalm 148:3-4

Confession and Repentance (Subjective Shifting Devotion Method http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html)

1.  Pray for the Holy Spirit to work in you:

     “Dear Holy Spirit, shine your light into the places of darkness in my life. Show me my sins, everything that blocks me from encountering God. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”

2.  Through the Holy Spirit, examine yourself for a short silence and then pray:

     "Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for our sins and being victorious over death and sin. I confess my sin to you(pause, to tell Jesus what the Holy Spirit has shown you). Forgive my sins by your blood and help me follow you. Holy Spirit, fill me that I may be able to receive your gift to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."

The Word (1 Samuel 12:1-15)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1 Samuel 12&version=ESV

       
       12 And when you saw that Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ when the Lord your God was your king. 13 And now behold the king whom you have chosen, for whom you have asked; behold, the Lord has set a king over you. 14 If you will fear the Lord and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the Lord your God, it will be well. 15 But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then the hand of the Lord will be against you and your king.
                                                                 1   Samuel 12: 12-15

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

My Listening

          Since Samuel's time and long before that time, human beings want to have kings. But Samuel told the Israelites that the Lord God was their king. Do you know how important it is that the Lord God is your King?

Let's see how Professor John Goldingay tells us: 

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) :

    

           Samuel's toughness is expressed in yet another condemnation of the rebelliousness expressed in the people's insistence on having a king…
          It would have been a shame to abandon this particular account of Samuel's condemning the people's desire of a king because of where the account then leads. It portrays the people recognizing they have done wrong and asking Samuel to pray for them. 

          

John Goldingay. 1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011, p.63.

         So, the message I received from Jesus is:
    Is the Lord God your King?
    Is the Lord God the King of your family?
    Is the Lord God the King of your church? 

Dear Lord Jesus, 

    Lead me as my Lord and King. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Reflect on these questions:

    1. Is the Lord God your King? Is the Lord God the King of your family?

2. Is the Lord God the King of your church?

3. How can the Lord God be your King, the King of your family and your church? 

    4. What have you got from Jesus today?

Today's Time with Abba daily reading:

Photos of my copying the Bible today using Time with Abba passages 

Photo of today 6:30a.m. Copying Bible to pray and 7a.m. Prayer Meeting

Praise and Thanksgiving

Let's give thanks for God with us. Let us praise Him:

10,000 Reasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXDGE_lRI0E

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